Sentence examples for blocking the moon from inspiring English sources

By Andy Borowitz August 19, 2017 WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Attacking the media for its "very unfair" coverage of Monday's solar eclipse, Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that the sun was equally to blame for blocking the moon.

"The fake news is covering the eclipse from the sun's side instead of the moon's side, but if you look at it from the moon's side the sun is blocking the moon's side," he said.

We only stopped when a large cloud blocked the moon above the tiny outpost that we were spending the night on.

Smoky clouds block the moon.

A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun's rays and casting a shadow on the moon.

The brightest day of the year will find the moon blocking the sun -- exactly, completely.

He came up with us to the roof, and decided that since the clouds were mostly in the east and only really blocking out the moon, we should have Public Night for the school group after all, even if conditions weren't perfect.

As the sun rises, it will be in partial eclipse, with a large chunk blocked by the moon.

Stargazers and tourists across the world have witnessed a rare solar eclipse - in which a view of the sun is totally or partially blocked by the moon.

Everything that should have been in sight was nearly pitch black because the dark clouds that came over me managed to even block out the moon.

The sun blocks the moon's path, and in the process, all light on Earth is extinguished for a few, brief minutes.